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Dr. Robert CassanovaDr. Robert CassanovaChair, NIAC External CouncilChair, NIAC External CouncilFormer Director, NIACFormer Director, NIAC
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Stretch your imagination… Change the possible!
Jay Falker
2011 Fellows Orientation Meeting2011 Fellows Orientation Meeting
ANSER ANSER -- November 15November 15--17, 201117, 2011
All photographs and non-attributed quotesCopyright Robert A. Cassanova 2011
The true visionary delights in an unfettered, creative imagination, exploring the possibilities of understanding the mysterious.
The true visionary delights in an unfettered, creative imagination, exploring the possibilities of understanding the mysterious.
Genius is the ability to transcend experienceGenius is the ability to transcend experienceAndAnd
“The Rules”.“The Rules”.
Holding onto fundamentalist beliefs in Holding onto fundamentalist beliefs in art, science, religion and politics, art, science, religion and politics, stifles the intellectual pursuit of stifles the intellectual pursuit of
knowledge and expression.knowledge and expression.
Holding onto fundamentalist beliefs in Holding onto fundamentalist beliefs in art, science, religion and politics, art, science, religion and politics, stifles the intellectual pursuit of stifles the intellectual pursuit of
knowledge and expression.knowledge and expression.
Don’t Don’t let “rules” become millstones that locklet “rules” become millstones that lockyyour research, science and art into our research, science and art into fundamentalist cages.fundamentalist cages.
““Rules” may be Rules” may be overover--extended suggestions.extended suggestions.
Changes in both art and science, however, have the same root –• the realization that things are not as we are accustomed to viewing them,• that there is more to them than what our standard representations can portray.
----Bulent Atalay
“….art is the pursuit of questions. Art is wonder. Art is inquiry. Art is a peek into the mysterious. At its best, art is, like life, asking the right questions and the right questions are so often more important than the answers we find.”
---Brooks Jensen, Editor, LensWork
Leonardo da Vinci
Bulent Atalay, physicist, artist
and author
Steve Strom,astronomer and photographer
Eliot Porter, MD and photographer
Paul Wainwright, physicist and photographer
A Few Scientists/Artists
Visionaries often have a passion for science and art.
Visionary science is art.
Our scientific, psychological and artistic tendencies are predisposed towards
symmetry, order, patterns, elegance, beauty and harmony.
Visionaries and geniuses share a common trait:
The ability to transcend life’s experiences and leap vast intellectual distances to set a new course for others to follow.
Imagination and visualization are, generally, the first step in learning, or creating, something radically new.
“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus”
Mark Twain
What is Revolutionary?(inspired by NIAC’s definition)
• The genius is in the generalities, and not the details
• The new idea illuminates a pathway towards a significant expansion of knowledge
• It inspires others to produce useful science and furtherelaboration of the fundamental idea
• It triggers a transformation of intuition
• Revolutionary paradigm shifts are often simple, elegant,majestic, beautiful and are characterized by order, symmetryand geometric form.
What is Revolutionary?What is Revolutionary?
Non-symmetry may be richer, more diverse and less boring
• Revolutionary paradigm shifts are often simple, elegant,majestic, beautiful and are characterized by order, symmetryand geometric form.
Creative paradigm changes are often the result of a non-linear, orthogonal imagination
Symmetry and order can be scientifically and visually pleasing
Three Stages of Reaction to Revolutionary Ideas
1 – It’s completely impossible
2 – It’s possible, but its not worth doing
3 – I said it was a good idea all along
Arthur C. Clarke
A few examples ofA few examples of
NIAC Landmark ConceptsNIAC Landmark Concepts
that inspired credible controversythat inspired credible controversyand and
new directionsnew directions
The Space ElevatorBradley Edwards
New Worlds ImagerWebster Cash, University of Colorado
Plasma bubbles for in-space propulsionand radiation protection
Robert Winglee and John SloughUniversity of Washington
BiosuitDava NewmanMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers. The round pegs in the
square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they
have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only things you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race
forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do…..
Attributed to Steve Jobs in an Apple ad
You can be a BEACON And
change the direction of aerospace endeavors
F I N A L A D V I C E F I N A L A D V I C E Don’t’ get the DTs (Do This, Do That)
Listen to your divine discontent
Don’t be just a landmark Be a Beacon that inspires further elaboration of the concept
and Exceed Yourself
Develop a creative vision before mediocrity's embrace.
Don’t let your preoccupation with reality stifle your imagination.
- Robert Cassanova and Sharon Garrison